Ministry Singles Cold Life cold you know the yolk it's spreading from you laugh as people scatter 'bout surrounded by a veil of stars you realize your life is dark earth gets colder every day if scientists could have their way they'd study us from far away and watch as people's minds decay cold your body's in the hands of fools with swimming pools and low iq's there's nothing to see, nothing to do buy your stocks and sell your jewels bill collectors stole my mail my wife and kids are all for sale i hope to god i go to jail and no one can come up with bail cold life i can't control my buried thoughts the slightest thing makes me distraught i'm like the people i once fought my every action's being bought robot trainers earn their pay as mutant kids go out to play it's such a pretty pretty day with orange nights and days of grey cold i've now become a nervous wreck i'm getting closer to my death i keep expecting my last breath as all my friends just laugh and jest the earth is such a filthy place and human such an awful race and i'd rather live in outer space where death goes at a slower pace cold life I'm Falling first last night we're riding home with friends in a big blue car for this man fed us rubbish as if it were caviar we told him, 'sir, please go away!' 'we're innocent of crimes!' he hit me with his black nightstick and all i heard were cries i'm falling i asked her for a date one night she thought it'd be a laugh i'd take her to a restaurant and then up to her pad i waited at my house that night for her phone call to come she'd gone off with a ruffian and he came by with a gun i'm falling i'm falling yes i'm falling All Day well i'm hiding my eyes from the morning sun and i keep on working till the work is all done but a voice in my head keeps ticking away as the sweat's hosed down from yet another day well he works hard and he lives hard and he breaks his back without nothing to gain while the boss man sits around and drinks champagne all day (you work and you work and you work and) in life, there's just one transition all day (you work and you work and you work and) in life, there's just one decision well i'm peeling the blisters off my working hand is that what it takes to make you understand? that it's something you read, not something you meant to be slaving away without a shred of integrity he worked hard and he lived hard and he broke his back without nothing to say while the man in control was just laughing away all day (you work and you work and you work and) in life, there's just one transition all day (you work and you work and you work and) in life, there's just one decision was it something you read? was it something you meant? was it something you said? or was it heaven sent? all day (you work and you work and you work and) in life, there's just one transition all day (you work and you work and you work and) in life, there's just one decision (Everyday is) Halloween well i live with snakes and lizards and other things that go bump in the night cos to me everyday is halloween i have given up hiding and started to fight i have started to fight well any time, any place, anywhere that i go all the people seem to stop and stare they say 'why are you dressed like it's halloween? you look so absurd, you look so obscene' o, why can't i live a life for me? why should i take the abuse that's served? why can't they see they're just like me it's the same, it's the same in the whole wide world well i let their teeny minds think that they're dealing with someone who is over the brink and i dress this way just to keep them at bay cos halloween is everyday it's everyday o, why can't i live a life for me? why should i take the abuse that's served? why can't they see they're just like me it's the same, it's the same in the whole wide world o, why can't i live a life for me? why should i take the abuse that's served? why can't they see they're just like me i'm not the one that's so absurd why hide it? why fight it? hurt feelings best to stop feeling hurt from denials, reprisals it's the same it's the same in the whole wide world The Nature of Love love - love is like an open hand stings a little when it lands hold me closer hold me tighter hold me so damn close that my heart's on fire it's a fantasy it's a nightmare and the whole damn world is walking round in theirs i said love - love is like a razor blade double edge and double pain hold me closer hold me tighter when i rip your flesh and the pain is fresh it's a fantasy it's a nightmare and the whole damn world doesn't seem to care i said love - love is like a butcher knife double sharp for single lives hold me closer hold me tighter as the lights go out and we start to shout it's a fantasy it's a nightmare with a big black bruise and a handful of hair i said love - Isle Of Man nice place clean water fresh air blue skies like pirates we tried it we took what we deserved half million years later we'd used up our reserves we're crying 'what happened?' we get what we deserve we get what we deserve we get instead the isle of man the isle of man i've wandered through forests with our garbage waist-high can't clean it i mean it we get what we deserve rainy mornings dry evenings it's growing on my nerves just gases you fascists you get what you deserve you get what you deserve you get instead the isle of man the isle of man i'm writing this letter so no one will forget some future cave dweller will find these notes an isle of man the isle of man Smothered Hope withered rope you hang what's empty can't remain to put it simply in time cry the hollow words to sing with false disguise smothered hope fly from sorrow for a new divine tomorrow i just don't want to know anymore life shifts up and down everybody knows it's wrong why don't you care? now do it seem fair? it's not in the rhyme or reason so it goes with every season crawl to top fall through bottom first hand love is really rotten slice of life find what's plenty inch towards a sanctuary light with me inside the womb i know everyone everybody knows it's me it's my voice, my voice cries out obscenity sightless eye regard my past sometimes it should i just don't want to know anymore. Tonight We Murder red hand takes a purple terror love knows these nuts when we escape from the madhouse we will... hunt down tonight we murder between the battle of pain and hate we will wait, but not for our time we'll for hate and to take to deep... throat tonight tonight we murder between the pain, the battle of pain love never ties knots a twisted plan of fear and hate we'll never untie these nuts tonight we murder i murder tonight we murder Jesus Built My Hotrod soon i discovered that this rock thing was true jerry lee lewis was the devil jesus was an architect previous to his career as a prophet all of a sudden, i found myself in love with the world so there was only one thing that i could do was ding a ding dang my dang a long ling long ding dang a dong bong bing bong ticky ticky thought of a gun everytime i try to do it all now baby am i on the run why why why why why baby if it's so evil then? give me my time, with all my power give it to me all again (wow) ding a ding a dang a dong dong ding dong every where i go everytime you tell me baby when i settle down got to get me a trailer park and hold my world around why why why why? ding ding donga dong dong ding dong dingy dingy son of a gun half my time i tell you baby never am I all for sure why why why why why baby sicky sicky from within everytime I stick my finger on in ya you're a wild wild little town bitch now how 'bout ding a dang dong dong dong ling long dingy a dingy dong a down everytime you tell me baby when i settle down got to get me a trailer park and hold my world around why why why why? in my dang a ding a ding a ding dong a sticky sticky son of a gun ding a danga danga dong dong ding dong why why never know why why wack a dong a dang ding dong then you take it on the bill ding dang dong don't dong whoa! i wanna love ya! why why why, why why darling do you do you tell me to play? half the time I talk about it all now baby you know what I'm talkin' about I said why why why it'll ticky ticky ticky ticky son of a gun ding ding dong a bong bong bing bong ticky ticky thought of a gun bing bing bang a bang a bang bing bong bing a bing bang a bong binga bing a bang a bong bong bing bong bing banga bong bing bing bang a bong bong bing bing binga binga banga bong bing bing bang a bang bang bing bong aarrrhhhh... ding dang a dang bong bing bong ticky ticky thought of a gun everytime I try to do it all now baby am I on the run why why why it'll ticky ticky ticky ticky ticky ticky dawn of a gun bing bing bang a bong a bong bing bang a ticky ticky thought of a gun bing bip bip a bop bop boom bam ticky ticky through the day if you got a doubt 'bout baby the memory is on the bed why why why why why darlin' uh it don't know when my time is on might tell me never do it on his own if my time was all as is yours make me burn a wish when my time with you is brutish no I'll never not ever why why why why why why baby heavy hell alone and it's here it's this thunder the thunder oh thunder oh! jesus built my car it's a love affair mainly jesus and my hot rod yeah, fuck it! TV Song tell me something i don't know show me something i can't use push the button connect the goddamned dots live-in thief in my bedroom bathroom commodity sodomy glass autonomy promise everything take it all away give it a rest you're lying through your teeth you're lying through your teeth who what which why who when did you say the earth would stop turning? why did you say we would all start burning? when should i make a pledge? should i listen to the voices in my head? connect the goddamned dots connect the goddamned dots who am i trying to impress? who could care less?